Light and Fluffy Banana Cake

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I’ve been making banana muffins for years (aka “happy cakes”) but have been craving a good banana cake that is light and slathered in butter cream icing (NOT cream cheese icing! There is a time and place for that, but it is way overdone, if you ask me—kind of like balsamic vinegar). And since it was my birthday recently, and given that my oldest daughter who sometimes offers to make a cake for me has never touched or eaten a banana in her life and would not dare start just because her mom turned 51, I thought I would make it myself. And so, I did. It wasn’t pretty, but it wasn’t as ugly as other cakes I’ve made. And because I made it on Martin Luther King Day and I was home off from work, my babysitter and cleaning lady watched me make it. They gave me lots of icing tips (AFTER the fact) that I will share on my next blog and try on my next cake.

Americans don’t think much about people in other parts of the world. But 2 sticks of butter !!!! What is the weight???

We never get butter in less than 500 gram packs. Our butter in New Zealand is great stuff, not like the USA. It is from grass fed cows, that is all we have anyway. So we get omega and all the goodies in our butter. It is actually good for you.

Delicious!! Made it last night with the sad old bananas that were just about ready to give up and drop off their hangar in exhaustion. Baked my two pans a little longer – maybe 20 minutes or so – and I didn’t have a banana for the icing but other than that, followed your easy and yummy recipe. Cheers all around from the crowd!

Dot, 2 sticks of butter is half a pound, so about 227 grams. I know what you mean. I have trouble converting recipes from other countries as well 😉 thank goodness for Google and instant conversion calculators. About the butter, it’s possible to get good organic butter in the US, just more expensive

What are they talking about? This calls for just 1/2 c butter, not 2 or 3 sticks! Seems like a very balanced proportion of ingredients. 1/2 c fat, 1 c sugar, 2 c flour ,etc. I dislike recipes that use more sugar than flour and/or 3 times this amount of butter or oil. Maybe it’s just me. I plan to make this today. Thanks for sharing.

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